Lasvegas showroom magician Cris Johnson comes with a secret which torments himhe can see a few minutes in to the foreseeable long term. Fed up with the assessments he failed as a child and the interest of the government and health care establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and alive off in-state gaming"winnings" However, every time a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device government agent Callie Ferris has to use all her wiles to catch Cris and convince him to allow her to prevent the cataclysm.